How To Use Millinery In A Sentence
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Mrs. Hicks's persistence gained her an apprenticeship in a hairdressing establishment where she learned the arts of millinery, dressmaking, hairdressing, and wig making, among others.
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I'll give you a letter to take to the millinery department of the Ka-De-We.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Merchant Ivory fans will be in heaven; the costumes and make-up are delicious enough to re-ignite the fashion for marcel waves and tea dresses, or at the very least, do wonders for the millinery industry.
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He must be a bit of an embroiderer, to work fanciful collars of hempen lace about the shrouds; he must be something of a weaver, to weave mats of rope-yarns for lashings to the boats; he must have a touch of millinery, so as to tie graceful bows and knots, such as Matthew Walker's roses, and Turk's heads; he must be a bit of a musician, in order to sing out at the halyards; he must be a sort of jeweler, to set dead-eyes in the standing rigging; he must be a carpenter, to enable him to make a jurymast out of
Redburn. His First Voyage
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From this day you must learn to embrace all manner of millinery or else relinquish your "coquette" sobriquet.
How about that Prada turban?
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In the world of high fashion, ladies donned hats adorned with heron and egret plumes, and many even wore elaborate millinery creations containing entire bird bodies.
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A point of the first importance to the girl who means to be a milliner is the fact that millinery is a seasonal trade.
The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance
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This book covers basic sewing, setting up a workroom, pattern draping, millinery, boning, fabrics, shoes, armour, and many other subjects.
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To be fair, the stereotypes abound as much as fake flowers on expensive millinery.
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It is his function to persuade with winged words his adversary, the company's local underwriter or "counterman," that the stock of cheap millinery belonging to the Slavonic gentlemen with the unfortunate record of two fires of unknown origin and two opportune failures is even more desirable -- at the rate -- than the large line on the substantial office building which he half exhibits, holding suggestively back.
White Ashes
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He opens a high - class millinery establishment.
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Nevertheless, directories do suggest that a surprisingly high number of women ran businesses, particularly in millinery and dressmaking, in inn-keeping, provisioning, grocery trades and teaching.
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Its usual chill repellance had been changed into something inviting by the wood fire on the hearth, and on the bed where the guests had deposited their wraps lay an array of millinery which drew her irresistibly.
Georgina of the Rainbows
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Her parents had been milliners in Clapham, just down the road, and had run a millinery and drapery shop.
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She might dressmake or do millinery work; she always had a pretty taste, and 't would be better than roving.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
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Even before they joined up, Frances was designing exclusive millinery to compliment the exquisite footwear.
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Many a beautiful marcel was sacrificed to save a masterpiece of millinery.
Hammer Ser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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She wears her invisible millinery lightly, though.
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Getting men to take an interest in what they look like has traditionally been considered uphill work, and in the grand scheme of the fashion industry, the status of menswear has tended to rank somewhere beneath novelty millinery.
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Visitors to this year's Show will find a wide range of consumer goods, fashion wear, millinery, equestrian clothing, tack, antiques, wines and confectionery on a record 311 trade stands.
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It is my wish that the Paris couturiers reduce the size of the ladies' hats this season, as in years past I have had many unpleasant encounters with enormous millinery.
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York-born Dawn has been making hats for 14 years, ever since she took millinery as a sideline while at art college in Surrey, where she studied fashion design.
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Maud Martha's refusal to purchase the millinery concoction, even at a substantially discounted price, reaffirms her sense of self.
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The hoarse grating sound of the saw, the whistling of the plane, and the stroke of the mallet denoted the presence of the carpenter; and the sharper clink of a hammer told of old Fogy, the family "milliner," being at work; but it was not on millinery Fogy was now employed, though neither was it legitimate tinker's work.
Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
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It is my wish that the Paris couturiers reduce the size of the ladies' hats this season, as in years past I have had many unpleasant encounters with enormous millinery.
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Without Milan, there would be no millinery; without Genoa, no blue jeans; without Naples, no ice-cream.